Rachel Maddow’s claim about Trump shipping people to El Salvador “with zero processing at all” is her opinion. Being in the U.S. illegally is a crime, and deporting violators doesn’t require a criminal record beyond that. U.S. citizens would’ve shown ID and stayed—citizens have a clear way to prove status and avoid this fate. Her opinion that “we don’t even know if any of them are, I don’t know, US citizens” is speculative and lacks evidence. Due process exists, and El Salvador’s deal was for deportees and criminal illegal immigrants.
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Rachel Maddow: In the insane case where Trump took 3 plane loads of people and shipped them to El Salvador with zero processing at all, just grab them off the street, force them onto a plane and shipped them to a prison in another country without any hearing or legal determination at all. Now the Trump administration has been forced to admit that, quote, many of the people they did that to had no criminal record whatsoever. But nevertheless they’re in prison now indefinitely, in a foreign country. And we’re not even allowed to know their names. We’re not even allowed to know if any of them are, I don’t know, US citizens. There’s a lot going on. Um, and a lot of it is very hard fought and full of drama. But as much as we are watching all of those stories those kinds of stories every day, we are also trying to keep our eyes on the sort of shadow stories in the boring corners…